How To Install xdg-desktop-portal-tests on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xdg-desktop-portal-tests on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is xdg-desktop-portal-tests
xdg-desktop-portal-tests is:
xdg-desktop-portal provides a portal frontend service for Flatpak, Snap, and possibly other desktop containment/sandboxing frameworks. This service is made available to the sandboxed application, and provides mediated D-Bus interfaces for file access, URI opening, printing and similar desktop integration features. See the xdg-desktop-portal package’s description for more details.
This package contains automated tests.
There are three methods to install xdg-desktop-portal-tests on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install xdg-desktop-portal-tests Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xdg-desktop-portal-tests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xdg-desktop-portal-tests
Install xdg-desktop-portal-tests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xdg-desktop-portal-tests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xdg-desktop-portal-tests
Install xdg-desktop-portal-tests Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install xdg-desktop-portal-tests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xdg-desktop-portal-tests
How To Uninstall xdg-desktop-portal-tests on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the xdg-desktop-portal-tests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xdg-desktop-portal-tests
Uninstall xdg-desktop-portal-tests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xdg-desktop-portal-tests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xdg-desktop-portal-tests
Remove xdg-desktop-portal-tests Configurations and Data
To remove xdg-desktop-portal-tests configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xdg-desktop-portal-tests
Remove xdg-desktop-portal-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xdg-desktop-portal-tests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xdg-desktop-portal-tests
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xdg-desktop-portal-tests package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
